tens of users of the metro of the city of Mexico have denounced kidnapping attempts in recent months inside and outside the facilities. The modus operandi is as follows: a man located the victim inside the carriages, begins to follow and at the exit of the station takes it against their will, after threatening her death if he screams or request help. If someone intervenes, it argues that it is his girlfriend doing “dramas”. They have sought some victims raise cars or trucks where there are more men participating. In all the cases reported in networks young women have managed to escape, although in the majority with the help of someone.
On Tuesday, reported the public transport system in a statement and in his Twitter that so far account “No 195 stations of the Metro network there are records of complaints associated with attempted kidnapping” and asked users to “denounce c any unusual behavior towards him with the police officers assigned to the interior of the meter or the competent authorities”. The unit said with modules that provide counseling and legal assistance, in addition to “in support of the safety of users are intended for exclusive cars across the network with permanent schedule”.
However, several of the witnesses reported that despite having filed the complaint formally, their cases have not prospered. In one of them, recorded October 12, 2018 at 8:10 in the morning, a 23-year-old girl climbed into a taxi at the exit of the metro Eduardo Molina of line 5, whose driver deviated from required travel and threatened her with a gun. In a high she shouted for help from a pair of police officers who ate tamales at a corner, who came to ask the driver what was happening and concluded that they could do nothing because “it was a matter of a couple”. Thanks to the intervention of two older adults, young could get off the taxi and escape her captor, who had led her to the edge of Ecatepec and Nezahualcoyotl. To file the complaint for attempted kidnapping before the public prosecutor they pointed out that it was not eligible because she “has had uploaded to cab by his own will”.
In another case, registered January 15, 2019 at 22:20 in the evening at the exit of Metro Coyoacán, three men tried to raise a young man of 29-year-a white van without success, after the intervention of a security guard from a nearby building that the firor or with his gun charge. To file the complaint with the public prosecutor’s Office indicated you that “only appropriate for theft”, not by kidnapping attempt.
The testimonies known so far for the complaint on social networks, cases have been presented in the velodrome of the line stations 9, promoter of line B, Martín Carrera of line 7, Taxqueña line 2, line 4, Tacubaya Coyoacán on line 3, Muzquiz of line B, line 9, Eduardo Molina of line 5, Puebla and lines 12 and 3 transfer towards the University Station on line 3.
The most recent complaint was recorded Tuesday when a young woman that was in the North Canal line station 4, approximately at 8:30 in the morning, observed a man who held a teenage girl that “went pale and with a stunning fear face”. Who publishes the testimony intervened by impersonating her sister and helped the girl to escape, after struggling with the subject and running away, without that nobody who was present at that time in the car they intervene in their help. The girl had failed to call his mother to warn him that they were following her and that it was for her to the station Indios Verdes, where he was waiting for her upon arrival with the help of the young man who tells the story in his Facebook.
“When we got green Indians there was her mother, super scared because she not already answered.” They realize how this story could be? ‘MOM, I come along.’ ‘ She already did not answer’. ‘ Already did not return’. The girl dropped to cry and hugged her MOM; I even asked him his name or something, I was super nervous, still very nervous, I will not say ‘take care’. Best friends, to take care of us all, see all, take care of us, and the girls scream, make noise, do not stop, become to the IDEA that you can pass, so not the take of surprise and are in SHOCK. “Defend A ALGUIEN, run, fight, we are all what we have”, features the testimony.
To the accumulation of these cases and the femicides that have been registered so far year, different groups feminists, activists, human rights defenders and victims are organized to perform different actions of protest nationwide for stop violence against women.
For this Friday, February 1 the shot he has called for the life and freedom of women, who, in city of Mexico, will depart from the fountain of Diana the Huntress to socket 20:00 to 22:00 hours.
On 9 March, international women’s day, is calling on the movement against insecurity one less in the Metro, or one less in the world. “It is not ‘not it leave us alone in the street’, is that they leave us in peace, let us kill, harass, rape”, sentence Luu Pérez, one of the organizers, hours before sharing in your Facebook profile the denunciation of Miguel Correa Hernandez by the of saparicion of her daughter in Leon, Guanajuato.
The country 18 States have alerts of domestic violence against women, 3 are in the process of activation and 9 are chosen, but they are not enabled.
“In our country we do not have statistics or (the) proper protocols, and that there are insufficient to combat or learn about street harassment and the systematic violence against women”, indicates the call to the shot, framed situation in the legislative proposals for curfews so that women do not come out at night, militarization of public security and informal pre-trial detention for serious crimes.
